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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2015
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);
Tao Lin, Beijing, CN;
Tao Wen, Beijing, CN;
Weichun Ren, Beijing, CN;
Yinfei Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Xilong Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A forwarding flow table request sent by a host device when the host device fails to find a matching forwarding flow table entry for a data packet to be forwarded is received, when a destination MAC address of the data packet is the global virtual MAC address, a forwarding flow table entry is generated according to the global port table; the forwarding flow table entry includes an operation indication of replacing the destination MAC address of the data packet with the matching MAC address found in the global port table; and the forwarding flow table entry is sent to the host device, so that the host device may forward a data packet matching the forwarding flow table entry.